Vote to Decertify Montana State Union Too Close to Call

Submitted by Carl Straumsheim on April 18, 2013 - 3:00am

Preliminary results[1] of the vote at Montana State University to decertify its union[2] shows the final margin will be even smaller than the decision to unionize in 2009, which won by a meager 12 votes. After the 375 ballots were counted at the Montana Department of Labor and Industry in Helena, the effort to decertify the Associated Faculty of MSU leads by five votes, 190 to 185. The union, which is affiliated with the statewide MEA-MFT[3], has challenged four ballots, while its opponents have challenged two.